475kg banned tobacco products seized

Coimbatore: The city police arrested two people from Lorrypet near Ukkadam on Wednesday for possession of 475kg banned tobacco products.

A special police team led by deputy commissioner Stalin had raided a transport office at Lorrypet after receiving a tip-off about transportation of the contraband from Karnataka. “We arrested Abbas and Jainullah Abudeen of Ukkadam. Preliminary inquiry revealed that the accused were planning to transport the products to Kerala,” Stalin said.

The duo was booked under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003 and remanded in judicial custody.

A month ago, the Coimbatore district police had seized 300kg of banned tobacco products from Karumathampatti and arrested Jithendra Kumar of Rajasthan and Dharvesh of Mettupalayam.